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The Experience of a Ph.D. Candidate and His Fiancee at the Shanghai University of Transportation
(Clearwisdom.Net)
Yang Yining was a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of
Transportation in Shanghai. On July 22, 1999, the situation in China suddenly
changed. Lies and persecution toward Falun Dafa and practitioners were
everywhere. As a Falun Dafa practitioner, Yang soon realized that he should step
forward to clarify the truth to the people in the world. The police considered
him to be the most "stubborn minded."
In October 1999, the People's Congress was preparing to make a new law to
persecute Falun Dafa. Yang went to Beijing again with a righteous belief in
Falun Dafa. He went directly to Zhongnanhai (the government headquarters) to
express his heartfelt voice to the government leaders. The police hand-cuffed
him and sent him back to Shanghai. Yang pointed out that it was against the
Constitution of China to forbid citizens to appeal to the government and that
the police were violating the law. The University police detained him for
several months. Yang did not waver in his belief at all. The evil people were
not satisfied since they did not achieve the goal of destroying his will. The
police in the Transportation University and Anhui University (where Yang's
father worked) conspired to threaten his family members that Yang would be sent
to a labor camp. With Yang family's agreement, he was illegally sent to a mental
hospital for as long as three months and was inhumanly tortured with psychiatric
drugs. Yang was finally released but was continuously under house-arrest at his
home in Anhui Province.
Yang's fiancée Zhao Lijun is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. She went to
Tiananmen Square in Beijing to validate Dafa in the Spring Festival 2000. She
was sent back and detained in Wuhan, Hubei Province. She openly clarified the
truth and spread Falun Dafa while she was in prison. After she was released, she
went back to Shanghai to work. In the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve
2001, her local police kidnapped her on her way to work. They sent her to a
brainwashing class but she did not change her mind. After that, the local police
kidnapped her again from home and sent her to a brainwashing class in Qingpu and
tortured her for several months.
Under the aggressive evil persecution, Yang and Zhao both made statements
that were against their hearts. However upon gaining freedom, they immediately
announced that those statements were invalid and went back to join the flow of
assisting the Teacher in Fa rectification.
Yang and Zhao met, got to know each other, and fell in love with each other
through cultivating Falun Dafa. Since they were persecuted, they were forced to
be separated, yet they still helped and encouraged each other when facing the
tremendous hardships. After the severe test, they were again united. Although
the persecution is still continuing, they always have active and optimistic
minds. They even began preparing for their wedding.
Unexpectedly, news has come that both of them have recently been arrested. We
do not know their whereabouts and their current situation and hope that people
who know can provide information about them.
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